How we, as living stones, should live with Jesus as our Chief Cornerstone.

Being Stoned
1 Peter 2:4-10
To Whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it
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Message 3 in our series from Exodus following Israels faith journey. This message focuses on the Passover then and now.

Chico Alliance Church
Pastor David Welch
The Passover Reborn
Introduction
God first prepared his people for deliverance through hardship. They needed to realize how miserable it is to serve any other nation and god. Next God prepared a leader to lead them through the process of
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Part 3 of the series - The Church of the New Testament. This part addresses the question, "What is the Church." There are many conceptual variations on what the church is and what its principal purpose is. But what did Jesus intend to build?

This 13-part series of classes has been many years in the making. About 25 years ago I began in earnest to examine the features, character and characteristics of the church as it existed in its earliest years. As I sometimes do, I kept my notes all along the way, and this series of classes is to a
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In the Lords Prayer as seen in Matthew 6:9-15 Jesus not only teaches us HOW to pray but also gives us insight into how he views the community of faith.

There are many cases to be made for the community versus the isolated individual. Not only do we see a biblical theme that rebukes isolationism, but one that admonishes our need for one another. One of the strongest biblical arguments for the community comes from the Lord’s prayer as seen in
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9th message in a series exploring the wonder of God as our loving Father. This message focuses on the fact that God is an affirming Father.

“The Affirmation Factor”
(The Fatherhood of God Pt 9)
Review
If we only had the image of God painted by Nahum, it would be most frightening. Nahum 1:2-6
Fortunately, Nahum’s image of God is not the only image found in Scripture. The Bible employs numerous images to communicate the
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Wayfaring Strangers
A Study of 1 Peter
Part 8
“Who are you”
Today after a 2 week break for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday
We are returning to our sermon series
From the book of 1 Peter
Titled
Wayfaring Stranger
Before we dig in
Let me ask you a question
I will tell you
It
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When it seems God is not doing anything in our difficulty, it pays to remember what He has done in our life.

“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you
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Christians are not exempted from sufferings. But, how could we react properly and different from the people in this world who are not believers?

“As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him — you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says: ‘See, I lay
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Even when we are not great orators, it is no bad thing to own the good news concerning Jesus Christ as a valid subject for conversation.

PECULIAR PILGRIMS
1 Peter 2:1-12
Jesus told His disciples, ‘You shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth’ (Acts 1:8).
When persecution broke out after the martyrdom of Stephen, the church was dispersed throughout Judea and Samaria, the
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We are a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, and we offer spiritual sacrifices to God.

MILK FOR ADULTS
1 Peter 2:2-10
Whether we are new in the faith or have been following Jesus for many years, we are encouraged to get back to basics, to return to our first love (Revelation 2:4-5), to long after sound Word-based teaching. Peter speaks of “the pure milk of the word” (1 Peter 2:2)
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Big Idea: We are God's prized possession! This sermon brings into focus several aspects of our identity in Christ and what it means for believers to be God's prized possession, as the Apostle Peter lays out in his first epistle.

INTRODUCTION
Do you remember playing that “What do these things have in common?” game when you were younger? You’d have to look at a group of pictures or a list of words and determine what the common denominator was. For example, if I say: “Black, Brown, and Grizzly…What do these three have in
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This is a highly foundational set of concepts, which every believer in Jesus Christ needs to grasp, in order to function effectively as the New Testament priest which he or she is.

THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE BELIEVER
Pastor Eric J. Hanson
Hosanna Church: 1983 & 4/2/2017
Introduction:
The New Testament teaches the priesthood of all believers, yet many Christians go through their whole lifetime with a mentality of being unable to approach God effectively. Jesus has actually
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Our position as Christians is where Jesus Christ is. At the Father's right hand

OUR POSITION IN CHRIST
TEXT- 1 PETER 2:9-10
INTRODUCTION- our position in Christ means that are no more foreigners or slaves but Sons of God so that where Christ is, there we will be also- John 14:3. We are a chosen race-before the creation of the world, a kingly minister of God, having the
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Some of God’s commandments & statutes we find easy to follow, others are a little more difficult for us to faithfully follow. God has given us a command that is explicit in the standard He expects us to live by: "You must be holy because I am holy"

God’s definition of Holy
We continue in our preaching series on discovering your destiny. For the next few weeks we are going to be considering how setting high standards in our lives is important as disciples of Jesus. This morning we are going to think about what it means to be decent and
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